Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SYMMONS family Llanstinan, later. Of some of his works more than one edition appeared; excluding the sermons, they are - (a) Inez, 1796, a tragedy; (b) Constantia, 1800, a dramatic poem; (c) Life of Milton, 1806; (d) Poems by Caroline and Charles Symmons, 1812 (CAROLINE was his daughter; she died of consumption, 1 June 1803); (e) The Aeneis of Virgil translated, 1817; (f) Life of Shakespeare, 1826. His son was JOHN SYMMONS
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Gwynedd) by queen Elizabeth. Furthermore he could compose an englyn, as is proved by the poetic dispute between him and Rhys Gruffydd and William Mostyn (NLW MS 1553A (761)). He married (1) Alis, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Rug, (2) Jane, daughter of John Massey of Broxon in Cheshire, and (3) Margaret, daughter of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn. He died 15 April 1586, aged 60, and was buried at
THELWALL, JOHN (1764 - 1834), reformer, lecturer and poet the Society of the Friends of the People. Because of his extreme radical views, he had to stand trial, 1-5 December 1794, having been imprisoned in the Tower of London since the previous May; however, he was found not guilty. Soon afterwards he published Poems written in close confinement in the Town and Newgate (London, 1795). He took a farm near Llyswen, Breck., c. 1798, but returned to London
THOMAS family Wenvoe, , the flagship of rear-admiral Linzee at Gibraltar. He returned home in 1814, but had no further active employment. On 7 August 1816 he married Susannah, daughter of Arthur Atherley, and had three sons and a daughter. He was retired with the rank of rear-admiral on 1 October 1846, and died on 19 December 1855. CHARLES NASSAU THOMAS A nephew of Sir Edmund Thomas, was as staunch an adherent of George
THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, William Gruffydd of Caernarvon, a son of Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn, by whom he had nine children. He was a justice of the peace for Caernarvonshire from c. 1575, sheriff in 1580-1, and Member of Parliament for the county in 1574 and 1584. In January 1581, he was a purchaser from the earl of Leicester of lands in Llyn, which had formerly belonged to the abbey of Bardsey. At his death he left lands
THOMAS DERLLYS (fl. 15th century), poet MS 112; Wynnstay MS. 1; Cardiff MSS. 5, 7, 27, 65; Hafod MSS. 13, 20. See also Cat. of Add. to B.M. MSS. 1841-5.
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author , where he remained till his death 20 November 1893. He was buried at Narberth. He married (1) Margaret George, Bailey Farm, Newcastle Emlyn, a member of Graig church (died 1878), who was the subject of one of his poems. Five children were born of the marriage; (2) the widow of David Lewis (Cynfyn), Carmarthen, who survived him by a few months. Myfyr Emlyn was a man of many parts. He was one of the most
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Preservation of the Welsh Language. It was at his Custom House Coffee Tavern that the society known as ' Cymmrodorion Caerdydd ' was formed; Cochfarf was one of the most influential members of that society. Cochfarf married (1) a daughter of Dr. Cook, Ynyspenllwch, and (2) a daughter of the Rev. Richard Hughes (Tremrudd), Maes-teg. The second wife, Madame Hughes-Thomas, became very widely known because of
THOMAS, EVAN LORIMER (1872 - 1953), priest and scholar Welsh commentaries on St. Luke's Gospel in 1920 and 1922 and on 1 Corinthians in 1934. He became Archdeacon of Montgomery and vicar of Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain in 1938. He retired in 1944 and went to live in Llanfairfechan. He was a gentle and firm man who found pleasure in all kinds of sport, particularly through angling and in ornithology. He died 9 April 1953, and was buried in St. Seiriol's
THOMAS, HENRY (1712 - 1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister which the church is known today - for about eighteen years but, for reasons which are no longer clear, was not its minister during the last thirty years of his life; he is accused by Edmund Jones of intemperance. He died 1 August 1802 at the age of 90, and was buried in the Godre'r Rhos burial ground.
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary son of William Thomas, merchant, of London, by Petronilla his wife, daughter of William Brand of Lincoln's Inn. He was born 30 June 1673 in Fetter Lane, and christened 1 July in S. Dunstans-in-the-West, and was descended from an old family (Roman Catholic, it is said) of Llanfrynach, near Brecon, but his grandfather, Roger Thomas, had sold the ancestral home. His ancestor, Thomas ap John (died
THOMAS, HUGH HAMSHAW (1885 - 1962), palaeobotanist Born 29 May 1885, in Wrexham, Denbighshire, 2nd son and 3rd child of William Hamshaw Thomas (men's outfitter) and his wife Elizabeth Lloyd. He was educated at Grove Park grammar school, Wrexham and went to Downing College, Cambridge, in 1904. Even at school he had acquired a serious interest in botany and fossil plants and he gained 1st class in pt. 1 of the Natural History tripos in 1906. He

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